AR 178-193 (portions) - More from the Church of Philadelphia

AR 178

"'For you have little strength.'"
(Revelation 3:8)

This symbolically means,
because they know they have no power of themselves.

People who are governed by truths
springing from goodness derived from the Lord
know that of themselves they do not have any power
against evils and falsities, thus against hell.
Moreover, they also know
that they cannot from any power of their own
do good or introduce themselves into heaven,
but that all power is the Lord's,
and thus that they have it from the Lord,
and this to the extent that they are governed
by truths springing from goodness,
a power that nevertheless appears to them as their own.

AR 185

A spiritual battle,
which is what temptation or a trial is,
is called the Lord's command to persevere or endure,
because in temptations or trials
the Lord battles for a person,
and He does so by means of truths derived from His Word.

AR 189

A crown symbolizes wisdom,
because wisdom occupies the highest place in a person
and so crowns him.

AR 191

The holy temple of Jehovah or of the Lord
is His Divine humanity,
for it is to this that people bow, look to, and pray,
and not to the temple merely,
as the temple is not, in itself, holy.
It is called a holy temple,
because holiness is predicated of Divine truth.

AR 193 [2]

When the Lord was in the world,
He made His humanity the embodiment of Divine truth,
which is also the Word,
and when He departed from the world,
He fully united the Divine truth to the Divine good
that He had in Him from conception.
For the Lord glorified His humanity,
or made it Divine,
in the same way that He makes a person spiritual.
That is, He first instills in a person truths from the Word,
and afterward unites these to goodness,
and by that union makes the person spiritual.